Category Archives: Diary

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Compile New GPSBabel from source

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

A new version of GPSBabel – version 1.4.2 came out but it’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories and there are no binaries on the GPSBabel site. I’m here to tell you that installing from the source worked pretty painlessly … Continue reading →

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Posting from Emacs

Posted on 2011-02-17 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Thanks to Peter, I’m writing this post in Emacs as a test to see whether it works as I think. This is how I got it all working (a lot of this depends on the very wonderful emacs starter-kit ) … Continue reading →

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Remove Line Breaks in OpenOffice Writer

Posted on 2011-02-14 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Something I find myself doing quite a lot these days is starting to write a text in Emacs Org-Mode which I then expect ‘normal’ people to contribute to or view. (By ‘normal’ I mean the perfectly nice but less enlightened … Continue reading →

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Face To Facebook Press Release

Posted on 2011-02-11 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

This landed in my inbox this morning and I had such fun reading it (I’d seen the project and cease and desist letter at Transmediale on Sunday), I thought I’d post it here in case it introduces other people to … Continue reading →

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A much better Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date

Posted on 2011-02-05 by Daniel Belasco Rogers

Of course, just as I predicted, Peter beat me to it and seemed to learn as much about Python as me in a few days whereas its taken me a few years to get this far (sigh). Last night, as … Continue reading →

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